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A TRNSYS component (Type 262) has been written to simulate a concentrating PV/Thermal collector. The component is based on a dynamic model of a concentrating PV/Thermal collector, which includes thermal capacitance effects, and detailed equations describing the temperature dependent energy flow between the collector and surroundings. The CHAPS system, a 30x concentration parabolic trough PV/The...

This study describes a simulation analysis to asses increased productivity of salterns used for sea salt production by implementing a solar parabolic trough collector to accelerate the evaporation process. The proposed system is designed for Southern Spain, to be coupled with a heat exchanger submerged in the saltern’s channel. A thermal-fluid analysis of the proposed system was modeled using E...

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